If you’re like me, you’ve been sheltering in place at home for the past eight months and you’re on your fourth round of watching “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” Okay, maybe that’s just me, but if there’s one thing I take away from 2020, it’s that when times are uncertain, we can always lean on... more
Organizations are looking to drive agility and maximize the potential of their analytics initiatives by building new systems or modernizing consolidating existing on-premises systems in the cloud. With its unique architecture, Snowflake Cloud Data Platform provides elasticity, native support for diverse data, and compelling performance at a fraction of the cost while eliminating the complexity of conventional... more
Data modernization and digital transformation: two major initiatives of the last five years for nearly every organization. For any organization, those terms may mean different things. However, at the end of the day, what they really mean can be summed up in one simple word: change. While change is never simple, especially when it impacts culture, data leaders know that a trusted foundation of governed... more
During this year’s General Election, Californians are casting a vote on new data privacy legislation, Proposition 24, and choosing whether to move forward with what many are calling “CCPA 2.0” after the California Consumer Privacy Act. Proposition 24 has been more formally known as the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). For a bit of recent... more
There’s no doubt that good data is a strategic asset to public sector institutions, whether in co-ordinating the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic, supporting and shaping long-term policy initiatives, or improving day-to-day service delivery. Complete, accurate, and accessible enterprise-wide data empowers institutions to make better decisions and take appropriate action, rapidly. Significant volumes of... more
The last few years have seen enterprise data governance as a top data management priority for healthcare organizations. And data governance has become more critical specifically for provider organizations with the COVID-19 crisis as new sources of data proliferate, the scope of self-service analytics expands dramatically, and executive decision-making evolves overnight to rely on reporting... more
Most of us have heard the adage, “Be careful of what you ask for, as you just might get it.” Organizations have asked—and technology has delivered. We have large volumes of data available to us, with the use of this data becoming more influential in strategic decision making than ever before. However, there’s still a... more
If you’ve been following our Data Empowerment Experts series this year, you’ll know that we have been outlining some of the challenges with turning data into insights that can be used throughout an organization to deliver business value. While there are certainly a lot of hurdles to overcome, one of the biggest challenges is getting... more